Official Microsoft E3 Thread

[dsister]

I meant to post this earlier. Just go ahead and post all the Microsoft news, previews, etc in here. If something is really big then it will get it's own thread.

Conference times:

Sunday 13th
Cirque du Soleil "Natal" Show - 7pm (PST)

Monday 14th
Microsoft Xbox 360 conference - 10am (PST)

Tuesday 15th
Microsoft Natal conference 4pm (PST)

Where to watch:
Live Streams:
1up
Gamespot
Gametrailers
IGN
Xbox.com

Live blogs:
1up
IGN
VGChartz
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You can watch the majority of last night's conference at Destructoid

Basic rundown.
* CoD content will be timed exclusive for the next 3 years.
* MGS Rising - wants his team to produce something unique for 360
o New gameplay mechanic based on "cut", you slice your opponent and take what seems like their soul
* Gears of War 3 4-player story mode co-op demonstrated
* Fable III - ships October 26th
* Crytek making a new 360 exclusive - Kingdom
* ESPN on XBox 360
* Kinect launches Nov 4th
* Forza 3 with Kinect
o Can walk around car and get a closer look by leaning/kneeling
* XBox 360 slim
o Sleeker, Smaller, 250GB HDD
o Same price as before
o Launches this week!


(Kinect Conference)

Natal name = Kinect launches Nov 4th

* Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.
* Joyride, a racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.Kinect Sports has six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, football and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in football, you can kick the ball or do a header.
* Kinect Adventures includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points.
* Dance Central, in development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.
* Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.
(stolen from Nordlead )

[c03n3nj0]

All I know is that they have a weird new name for NATAL or somethin'

[dsister]

Some of Kinect's(Natal) launch titles:

Among games in the works:

•Kinectimals lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger.

•Joyride, a racing game, lets players use their hands to hold an imaginary steering wheel — pull your hands toward you and push back out for an acceleration boost — and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks.

•Kinect Sports has six activities including boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, football and table tennis. To serve a volleyball, you mimic the real motion; in football, you can kick the ball or do a header.

•Kinect Adventures includes a river-raft time trial and obstacle course, playable by up to four players. On the raft, playing as a duo, you and a partner must lean one way or another to steer. Jumping helps the raft reach special areas for extra points.

•Dance Central, in development by MTV Games, brings a So You Think You Can Dance experience home.

•Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney."

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[pichu]

•Star Wars characters and iconic Disney favorites will be featured in separate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney.

Interesting...

[dsister]

Look who paid a visit to the NatalKinect conference

[Mako]

I'm really interested to see how "Kinect" and "Move" will do. The casual market already has the Wii and I doubt the will be spending all that money on new consoles/ accessories when they are probably fine with what they have. Of course all Sony/ Microsoft fans calling motion controls "stupid" and such are probably really excited before. I know not everyone said that but many did. These things could either be successful or end up doing really bad.

[El Duderino]

^^ Yeah I really wonder if Sony or MS will try to make their motion control look good for the core crowd or if they think they already have them covered and just want to go after nintendo... but I think it might take another year (maybe more) before devs really have had the time to do that... (I mean really use it.. not just tak the controlls on to a shooter or something)... also if MS bundles it with the arcade for a good price they might be on to something since they could make it pretty cheap and you only need one camera for four players... the PS3 is more expencive as it is and you would need 4 remotes to fully enjoy move just like with the wii... so I don't know what they will try... lots of people expect Nintedo to bring a WiiHD to the market to stop people from upgrading to HD... which is getting more likely now with the new motion controls... so yeah will be interesting to see how it works for everybody...